Title :
Temperature-Sensitive Photonic Liquid Crystal Fiber Modal Interferometer
Author :
Milenko, Karolina ; Wolinski, Tomasz R. ; Shum, Perry Ping ; Hu, Dora Juan Juan
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Phys., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw, Poland
Abstract :
In this paper, we present an experimental investigation of the photonic crystal fiber (PCF) and photonic liquid crystal fiber (PLCF) modal interferometers. The PLCF interferometer is fabricated by infiltrating a liquid crystal (LC) into the PCF and then splicing the effective PLCF between two single-mode fibers (SMF). By heating the PLCF interferometer, we present a possibility to tune optical properties of the propagating light. We also compare PCF- and PLCF-interferometer responses in the presence of changing external temperature conditions.
Keywords :
fibre optic sensors; holey fibres; light propagation; liquid crystals; optical fibre fabrication; photonic crystals; modal interferometer; optical properties; photonic crystal fiber; propagating light; single-mode fibers; splicing; temperature-sensitive photonic liquid crystal fiber; Liquid crystals; Optical fiber sensors; Optical fibers; Optical interferometry; Photonic crystal fibers; Photonics; Fiber optics; modal interferometers; nematic liquid crystal; optical fiber devices; optical fiber sensors; photonic crystal fibers; temperature sensing;
Journal_Title :
Photonics Journal, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/JPHOT.2012.2215583
